This recently renovated chapel in Kanab was built in the 1920s but now serves as a community history museum and the Kanab Family History Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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The old red brick church in downtown Kanab has seen a lot of changes in its 85 years.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints authorized a new building for church members in Kanab in 1923. Construction began the next year. Four years later, Heber J. Grant, then president of the LDS Church, dedicated the chapel in September 1928.

In the late 1950s, a large addition was constructed next to the existing structure, as it became the Kanab Stake Center. Consequently, the building held many people, as multiple LDS congregations, known as wards, comprise a stake. During this 1960 renovation, ...